• Monarch – Frederick VI^[1]
• Prime minister – Otto Joachim

• 5 March – The Music Society is founded in Copenhagen, on Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse's birthday, and for almost a century it remains the most important music venue in Denmark
• 15 April – Høst & Søn is founded.
• 25 June – Køge Savings Bank is established.^[2]

Undated edit

• Musikforeningen is founded.
• A. N. Hansen & Co. is founded.

January–March edit

• 2 February – Wilhelm Hellesen, industrialist and inventor (died 1892)

April–June edit

• 24 April – Ditlev Torm, businessman (died 1907)
• 9 May – Sophus Schandorph, poet (died 1901)
• 12 May – Ludvig Grundtvig, photographer (died 1901)

July–September edit

• 4 August – Vilhelm Dahlerup, architect (died 1907)
• 5 August – Vilhelm Bissen, sculptor (died 1913)
• 29 August – Christian Conrad Sophus Danneskiold-Samsøe, landowner and theatre director (died 1908)

• 18 February – Johan Daniel Herholdt, physician (born 1764)
• 29 November – Caspar Henrik Wolfsen, privateer and customs inspector (born 1781)
• 30 December – Pierre Paul Ferdinand Mourierm Danish Asiatic Company trader and landowner (born 1746)